web analytics

Beyond Traditional Business Intelligence

Today’s BI tools are similar to reading an interactive newspaper. Normally they’re read-only views looking at data about a day old (depending on when the transactional data was moved into the reporting warehouse), and they provide some slicing / dicing and…

Exporting WebEx Contacts

Have you ever wanted to export all your contacts out of Webex? If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to retrieve all your contact information from Webex, you’re not alone. Many users, including myself, have encountered situations where the need to…

Moving Forward with DataOps

Organizations that have truly embraced Big Data have shifted away from monolithic, traditional architectural models that fail to manage the new data paradigm of nearly unlimited amount of high-variety and high-velocity data. Instead, these forward-leaning organizations have come to adopt…

Get to Know New Modules Even Faster

In Composable’s DataFlow Designer, we’re always looking for ways to make learning how to build powerful DataFlow Applications quicker and easier. We already offer some great resources, including sample DataFlows that show exactly how Modules can be used and tutorials here on…

Drowning in Text Files

Everyone has them laying around their computer somewhere: folders full of loosely formatted files.  It could be text, xml or csv data that was created for that one time use that is now becoming multiple use.  The original person and…

Next Generation Data Flow Engine

Querying Data in Spreadsheets, No Database Required

When you’re working with lots of data, few tools are more useful than a powerful querying language like SQL. The ability to isolate the data you’re looking for, make useful transformations, and generate statistics can be the difference between gaining genuine insights and being…

The best way to hit WCF from JS, anywhere

Those who have used the <ScriptManager> tag in an ASP.NET application know it to be one of ASP’s stronger features.  Using ServiceManager to generate AJAX code allows you to hit a WCF endpoint with minimal effort, and avoid nasty serialization…